Film

Some love for my hero Ava DuVernay: AFFRM picks up Restless City & some other news for AFFRM + a release Date for Middle of Nowhere

And for the man who made me crush so hard on San Francisco: Barry Jenkins is working on an adaptation of a graphic novel (and it sounds interesting!)

Indies Unchained shares how to find out about free film screenings!

Literary

I’m adding Rings of Saturn to my to-read list and planning to re-read The Stranger because of this list of novels of solitude compiled by Teju Cole

I added Rebecca Walker’s Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness to my to-read list after reading dream hampton’s essay Audacity

Other

Saw this video over at Traveling Black Chicks.  The video is kind of long but definitely worth it for anyone pursuing entrepreneurial dreams